Timeline of Rijeka
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rijeka, Croatia.
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- 3rd century CE – Roman triumphal arch erected.[1]
- 799 CE – Town sacked by forces of Charlemagne (approximate date).[2]
- 1139 – "Counts of Duino" in power.[1]
- 1377 – Church of the Assumption founded.[1]
- 1453 – Virgin Mary pilgrimage church established near town.[3]
- 1471 – Austrians in power.[1]
- 1638 – St. Vitus Cathedral founded.
- 1722 – Fiume becomes a free port.[4]
- 1779 – Town becomes part of the Kingdom of Hungary.[3]
- 1790 – Church of St. Nicholas built.
19th century
- 1809 – Town occupied by French forces.[1]
- 1813 – Town taken by British forces.[1]
- 1822 – Town ceded to Hungary.[1]
- 1849 – Town becomes part of Croatia.[4]
- 1856 – Imperial Naval Academy founded.[5]
- 1870 – Town becomes part of the Kingdom of Hungary again.[1]
- 1872 – Drenova becomes part of Fiume.
- 1873 – Railway begins operating.[1]
- 1875 – Whitehead's torpedo manufactory in operation.
- 1877 – Port built.[2]
- 1891
- 1898 – October: Flood.[2]
20th century
- 1900 – Population: 38,955.[1]
- 1903
- Rijeka Synagogue built.
- Seamanship school founded.[1]
- 1906 – February: Labour strike.[2]
- 1913 – Stadio Comunale del Littorio opens.
- 1919 – Town becomes part of the Italian Regency of Carnaro.
- 1920 – Free State of Fiume established per Treaty of Rapallo.[3]
- 1921 – Communist Party of Fiume established.
- 1922 – Town taken by Italian forces.[3]
- 1924
- 16 March: Fiume becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy per Treaty of Rome.[3]
- Town becomes capital of Fiume province.[3]
- 1926 – Unione Sportiva Fiumana football club formed.
- 1945 – Yugoslavs in power.[3]
- 1946 – NK Kvarner football club active.
- 1947 – Fiume becomes part of Yugoslavia per treaty.[3]
- 1948 – Kvarnersko Brodogradilište shipyard active.
- 1949 – City becomes seat of the Rijeka Oblast of Yugoslavia.[3]
- 1953 – Kvarnerska Rivijera football tournament begins.
- 1970 – Rijeka Airport opens.
- 1973
- University of Rijeka established.
- Dvorana Mladosti (sport venue) opens in Trsat.
- 1978 – Automotodrom Grobnik opens.
- 1991
- City becomes part of Croatia.
- Population: 162,814; metro 236,028.
- 1998 – Polytechnic of Rijeka founded.
21st century
- 2000 – Luka Rijeka company established.
- 2011 – Population: 128,624; metro 213,666.
See also
- Other cities in Croatia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 "Fiume", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Fiume", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Rijeka", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1581, OL 6112221M
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 George Henry Townsend (1867), "Fiume", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- ↑ "Fiume", Austria-Hungary, with Excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest (11th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Fiume", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
This article incorporates information from the Croatian Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, and Italian Wikipedia.
Further reading
Published in the 19th century
- David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Fiume". Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
- "Fiume", Enciclopedia italiana e dizionario della conversazione (in Italian) 7, Venezia: Girolamo Tasso, 1843
- Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Fiume". Geography. English Cyclopaedia 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
- George L. Faber (9 November 1877), "Fiume and her New Port", Journal of the Society of Arts (London) 25
- Great Britain. Foreign Office (1880). "Austria-Hungary: Fiume". Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c. of Their Consular Districts. London: Harrison and Sons.
- Thomas Graham Jackson (1887), "Fiume", Dalmatia, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. Lambert Playfair (1892), "Fiume", Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray
- Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Fiume", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555
Published in the 20th century
- "Fiume". Illustrierter Führer durch Dalmatien [Illustrated Guide to Dalmatia] (in German) (5th ed.). Wien: A. Hartleben. 1902.
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Coordinates: 45°19′00″N 14°25′00″E / 45.316667°N 14.416667°E
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